NEW HAVEN A capacity crowd of several hundred students and citizens came to Yale's Battell Chapel Tuesday for a 90-minute lecture on Plato and democracy. The unusual event was the first of 15 weekly ...

Matthew Sharpe works at Deakin. He has received funding from the ARC for work on the history of philosophy as a way of life. He wishes to thank his friend and teacher, Dr. William H. F. Altman, author ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

THIS delightful little book improves on a second reading. It is a mock Platonic dialogue—not pedantically close to the Greek—purporting to give Socrates' account of a lecture tour he has just taken in ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0152 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0152 Copy URL ABSTRACT: In Plato’s Republic ...

The Last Judgement (detail), by Michelangelo. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Michelangelo/Public Domain Plato concluded the ten books of the Republic with the myth of Er, which ...